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IMC panel at CES to discuss NIST IoT plans

The IoT M2M Council (IMC) will be running a panel at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on the news that the IoT has been identified as [...]

Nokia helps Finland smart grid handle renewables

Nokia aims to transform Finland’s nationwide smart grid so it can provide better support for renewable energy. The tech company is installing a mission-critical IP/MPLS network to help Fingrid, [...]

BP moves European data centres to AWS

Energy giant BP is closing its European mega data centres and migrating all data and 900 key applications hosted there to Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of a [...]

Worley and Arundo establish machine learning hub

Worley, a specialist in engineering, procurement and construction, and Arundo, a Californian software company enabling analytics in heavy industries, have launched Data Refinery, a hub for applied data science [...]

STM adds wireless to powerline chipset

Swiss semiconductor firm ST Microelectronics is combining powerline and wireless communications in its market-proven smart-meter chipset. Already used in smart electricity meters, the ST8500 powerline communication (PLC) chipset now enables [...]

Analog Devices helps Elgama improve smart meters

Lithuanian electricity meter maker Elgama-Elektronika is using diagnostic technology from Massachusetts-based chip maker Analog Devices to improve remote accuracy monitoring and tamper detection. Elgama plans to design electricity meters enabled [...]

Adesto aids smart meter pilot in North Africa

Tunisian energy metering company Société Industrielle d’Appareillage et de Matériels Electriques (Siame) is piloting powerline smart meters in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries using technology from Adesto Technologies. California-based Adesto [...]

ABB and Verdigris machine learning predicts power peaks

Swiss engineering firm ABB and Silicon Valley-based Verdigris Technologies have developed machine-learning algorithms to predict unplanned peaks in power consumption and identify strategies to prevent them. ABB is deploying artificial [...]

Adnoc adopts Honeywell AI and machine learning

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has selected Honeywell’s asset monitoring and predictive analytics to drive improved asset and machinery management across its upstream and downstream operations. Leveraging AI [...]

Sigfox gives smart makeover to Japanese gas meters

The Sigfox network is helping 850,000 Nippon Gas (Nicigas) gas meters across Japan get a smart makeover by the end of 2020, thanks to a retrofitted gas meter reader [...]

Tepco uses Bidgely AI to personalise consumer recommendations

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is using artificial intelligence (AI) to provide consumers with a breakdown of home energy consumption by appliance category for the first time in Japan. [...]